A Matter of Obscenity : : The Politics of Censorship in Modern England / / Christopher Hilliard.
A comprehensive history of censorship in modern BritainFor Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate an...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Obscenity, Literacy, and the Franchise, 1857–1918
- Chapter 2 The Censorship versus the Moderns, 1918–1945
- Chapter 3 Protecting Literature, Suppressing Pulp, 1945–1959
- Chapter 4 The Lady Chatterley’s Lover Trial, 1960
- Chapter 5 The Liberal Hour, 1961–1969
- Chapter 6 Subversion from Underground, 1970–1971
- Chapter 7 Campaigners and Litigants, 1972–1977
- Chapter 8 Philosophers and Pluralists, 1977–1979
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Manuscript Sources
- Index
- A note on the type